July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.

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Letters to the Editor

To the editor:

(April 27) It's been five days since the Portland Aviation Board meeting, and The Commercial Review's front page write-up.

I've thought seriously about the matters at hand so I'm writing to you, the editor, and the peole of Portland. I do not live within the city limits, but I do live in Jay County.

I normally would not even know what goes on at the airport but for some reason Miller Aviation has chosen to include me. I suppose because my son is Aaron Huey of Dun Right Maintenance and Contracting.

I received a call from Barry Miller, a brother to Dave Miller (it's on my caller I.D. as Miller Aviation).

I'm assuming Barry called me because he and his wife have known me for 40 years.

I was questioned about my son and his business, and if he worked for Glynn Barber. My answer was that he had done work for Glynn on several occasions. Again, I'm wondering, why are they calling me?

The conversation led to hints that Glynn Barber may have done something with the invoices that Aaron had turned into the city. At that time I did tell them I knew about the oil spill from the drum that had rotted out.

I was told it was left there by a former airport manager. So why didn't they clean it up 20 years ago?

Aaron had taken pictures of drums and buckets of oil, batteries that had sat so long that the bottoms had rotted out, and chemicals for spraying crops and loads of junk and trash.

I knew all this because Aaron used my computer to download the pictures he took the first day he went in to clean up the mess and do the repairs needed on several of the buildings.

When it came to the oil spill, after digging down 16 inches and still finding oil in the soil, and water filling the hole, he advised Glynn Barber and eventually Mayor Bruce Hosier.

Aaron felt that the EPA should be called. I believe IDEM was called when it became an issue?

Was this what started the counter-attack on Aaron Huey by Miller Aviation? I don't know. I would be guessing at this point. I do know that all of this is on record. I know the pictures are on file. The mayor, IDEM, and the board of aviation all have copies.

Aaron has the originals still on his phone and I have them downloaded in my computer. Maybe the whole city should see them. I'm just tired of the slander from Miller Aviation and his employees, and The Commercial Review printing it. Miller Aviation knows what those hangers looked like before Aaron cleaned them out, and they know just what work Aaron did and was not touched yet because of this whole attack.

They are now taking pictures of things that Aaron had not repaired, that had been damaged by snowplows, and passing them at your board meetings calling it shady work. They're calling his electrical work shady, when the wires were laying on top of the ground from previous electricians and records will show what electricians did that work.

By the way, my husband worked on the electrical work, too. He'll soon have his associates degree as an electrician, and he's at the top of his class.

They were also going to have the electrical work inspected.

A good thing was started. I've seen the change, a change that should have been kept up on, for the last 20 years. You people of Portland need to get involved, ask to see the records of Miller Aviation and the records of just how Glynn Barber's business and XPLEX really was with the city. You'll be surprised.

You honest businessmen of Portland, how will you answer the people's questions when they find out you backed those practices all these years?

That airport should be making money for the city, not costing the city thousands of dollars every year.

Get involved. It comes out of your taxes, not mine. Wait a minute. The airport gets state and federal funding.

Guess it comes out of mine too.

Charlene E. Wilder

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